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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: File naming conventions
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Zenaan Harkness |
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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: File naming conventions |
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Tue, 19 Oct 2004 13:34:15 +1000 |
On Tue, 2004-10-19 at 09:35, Miles Bader wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 09:17:14AM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
> > If the other discussions that have strongly suggested the user-visible
> > portions inside {arch} are being removed (tla 2.0?) with {arch} simply
> > becoming an arch system-level database, is there any reason it couldn't
> > be renamed .{arch} or similar?
>
> What on earth would the point be? The only complaints that don't fall into
> the category of "it's just not to my taste" are ones that have to do with
> typing that name in csh/tcsh, and if people don't need to type it, those
> complaints go away.
I said that in the context (I thought) of a complaint about globbing,
where * catches {arch} but would not catch .anything including .{arch}.
Sure there are workarounds, but this is the crux of this conversation -
there are a lot of workarounds, some which, when not known, are
potentially "serious".
> [Anyway, I don't want {arch} to go away at all, because it's a convenient
> place to put my own arch-related meta-files.]
Who said anything about it going away?
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: File naming conventions, (continued)
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- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: File naming conventions, Miles Bader, 2004/10/18
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: File naming conventions, Miles Bader, 2004/10/18
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: File naming conventions, Dustin Sallings, 2004/10/18
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: File naming conventions, Zenaan Harkness, 2004/10/19
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: File naming conventions, Dustin Sallings, 2004/10/18
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: File naming conventions, Zenaan Harkness, 2004/10/19
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: File naming conventions, Zenaan Harkness, 2004/10/18
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: File naming conventions,
Zenaan Harkness <=
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: File naming conventions, Miles Bader, 2004/10/19
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: File naming conventions, Dustin Sallings, 2004/10/19
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: File naming conventions, Zenaan Harkness, 2004/10/19
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: File naming conventions, Adrian Irving-Beer, 2004/10/19
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: File naming conventions, David Allouche, 2004/10/20
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: File naming conventions, Zenaan Harkness, 2004/10/20
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: File naming conventions, John Meinel, 2004/10/20
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: File naming conventions, chth, 2004/10/20
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: File naming conventions, Zenaan Harkness, 2004/10/20
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: File naming conventions, Matthieu Moy, 2004/10/20